Sputnik news agency quoted an informed source that the agreement on the export of grain means the establishment of a security zone to check ships near Ukrainian waters and not in ports, while the Ukrainian army announced that it launched a new attack on Russian forces in southern Ukraine.
Sputnik indicated that the initial date for the meeting of the delegations of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations on grain will be on the 20th and 21st of this month, with the possibility of adjusting the date.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that the quadripartite meeting held in Istanbul concluded an agreement on basic technical issues such as the establishment of a joint coordination center in Istanbul, explaining that the agreement included establishing joint controls at port exits and access points and ensuring the safety of navigation on transport routes and the path of vessels that Carry grains and other food.
A quartet meeting was held yesterday in Istanbul on discussing the transfer of grain from Ukraine, which included representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced that the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will meet next week in Turkey to review all the details and sign the measures that have been agreed upon.
Ukrainian attack
On the ground, the Ukrainian army said that its forces bombed at night a Russian ammunition depot, control points and a military landing platform in the city of Nova Kakhovka, southwest of Kherson Province.
Serhiy Prachuk, spokesman for the Odessa Regional Administration, quoted the Operational Command in the South as saying that the new attack on Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region had killed 13 "occupiers".
He gave no evidence of the death toll, and there was no immediate comment from the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Ukrainian military stated that Russian forces were strengthening their fortifications at the Antonev Bridge in the Southern Province.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military said an attack by its forces on Nova Kakhovka killed 52 people.
Russia-appointed town authorities said at least seven people were killed in that attack, the TASS news agency reported.
In Mykolaiv, in the south of the country, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported a series of explosions this morning in the depth of the province.
The reporter added that among the targeted sites were a hotel near a Red Cross aid distribution point, a government school, and public transport buses.
The local authorities have not yet commented on the nature of the explosions or the extent of the losses.
In the same context, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service reported that 12 people were killed and 25 wounded in the Russian bombing of the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the targeting of civilians in Vinnytsia could only be described as a "blatant and inhuman terrorist act".
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on a statement by Polish President Andrzej Duda regarding the transformation of the Baltic Sea into the so-called inland sea of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
She said in her comment that Doda has the right to dream, because dreams do not harm.
In response to a question in this regard, she added that Russia will deal appropriately with all the risks that may result after Sweden and Finland join NATO.
storming a city
Meanwhile, Russian forces and their loyalists stormed the city of Seversk in the eastern Donetsk region.
The official Russian news agency "TASS" quoted Vitaly Kiselyov, the assistant interior minister of the self-declared republic, as saying that the city could fall completely within two days.
For its part, news websites close to the Ukrainian army broadcast pictures of what they said was the bombing of Russian ammunition depots in Donetsk Province (eastern Ukraine).